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There wuz quite a number of places on the Pike that we passed that I kinder wanted to see, but Josiah wuzn't willin' to pay out too much money, and what interested me most wuz the foreign countries that I had never had a chance to see, they havin' the misfortune to be so fur from Jonesville.
Why! she risked what she thought was smallpox to keep him from dyin' that night she picked him up, ravin' distracted, in the middle of the lighthouse lane, and if he hadn't married her after that I, for one, would have been willin' to vote to give him his walkin' papers, Come-Outer she may have been, but, by time, she's got religion that's good enough for me and I'll be proud to see her the wife of my minister.
He'll be hanged a week from to-morrow night if some one don't make a plea for him. It takes a woman to do such a job as this are you game?" "Why, he couldn't have done it," sez she. "He was here all that spring." "Are you willin' to swear to it?" sez I. "Oh, I don't want to appear in public but of course I will, if the' ain't no other way." "You won't have to if you'll come with me to-night.
I prefer 'em rough-cast or even ugly, so long's they're smart an' willin'." "Oh! but you have no idea what a smart and willing boy he is," said Ruth, firing up in defence of her little friend.
"You see I'm so fortunate as to have got the start of you." "Very good," said Earl contentedly, "you may have it; the start's one thing and the pull's another. I'm willin' anybody should have the start, but it takes a pull to know whether a man's got stuff in him or no." "What do you mean?" said the doctor. "I don't mean nothin' at all.
Not while de sun shines in de heavens. As Ah was willin' to die fer Miss Viola, I would any time lay dow my life fer you, Judge, or ary one of de fambly." "Well, you are a good boy, and," after handing him the paper, "now you can go to your friends at the quarters." When the curtain was rung down on this scene, in a metaphorically sense, it rose on another of much interest.
Acted like she'd took a fancy to me," he said, with a sprucing back of his old shoulders. "Got all the wiles of that there woman that danced off the head of John the Baptist," said the elder, grimly. "So she dasted even to tempt a deacon of the church." "She didn't tempt me none," snapped the deacon, "but I lay she was willin'."
"And little under-thin's, an' a hat, an' sacque; shoes just look at them, Janet! Little feet they covered, but such willin' little feet, always a-trottin' 'bout till the very last, so turrible afraid they wouldn't be grateful enough. Lord! but that was what she said." The pitiful store of woman's clothing lay near Janet, but she made no motion to touch it. "And this is her!"
"Blood-poisonin' set in," he began with a haste which seemed due to excitement. "Developed sudden. Had to amputate to save his life. He was willin' enough; he knew it was for the best, his only chance in fact." Dan Treu was seized with a sudden aversion for Lamb's shifty, dark-circled eyes, his unconvincing nasal voice. "Blood-poisonin' set in, you say?" He eyed Lamb steadily.
"Mis'ess an' me, we've arranged it all. You're to help me in the kitchen; an' if you can do what you're told, an' are willin' to learn, we'll soon get you out of your troubles. There's but one thing in the way." "What is it, please?" asked Clare. "The dog, of course! You must part with the dog." "That I cannot do," returned Clare quietly, but with countenance fallen and sorrowful. " Come, Abdiel!"
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